--- title: Bullied Teens Twice as Likely to Consider Suicide, Study Says description: A new study finds cyberbullying to being especially dangerous canonical: https://time.com/19873/bullied-teens-twice-as-likely-to-consider-suicide/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-11T14:41:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:54:59.587Z og:title: Bullied Teens are Twice as Likely to Contemplate Suicide og:description: A new study finds cyberbullying to being especially dangerous og:url: https://time.com/19873/bullied-teens-twice-as-likely-to-consider-suicide/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bullied Teens are Twice as Likely to Contemplate Suicide twitter:description: A new study finds cyberbullying to being especially dangerous twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Bullied Teens Twice as Likely to Consider Suicide > Sponsored content. 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Kids who were cyberbullied were more three times as likely to contemplate suicide as non-bullied kids. The researchers compiled data from dozens of studies done since 1912, which included data gathered from over 234,000 teens and kids. “This might be because with cyberbulling, victims may feel they’ve been denigrated in front of a wider audience,” said Mitch van Geel, who led the study, said in an interview posted on the JAMA journal’s website. He also noted that online taunting lasts for longer on the Internet, and has a greater capacity to haunt the victims. In the United States, between five percent and eight percent of teenagers attempt to kill themselves every year, and suicide is one of the leading causes of teenage deaths. 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